[ale] shell question

[DJPfulio at jdpfu.com (DJ-Pfulio)]

In Unix, *.* doesn't mean the same thing as * - which is probably what
you want.  Extensions don't mean a thing to Linux - they are only there
for humans who came from DOS/Windows. For example, a pdf file doesn't
actually need to end in .pdf to be loaded inside evince.  The files
"magic number" must show it as a PDF file, however.  Try it if you don't
believe me.

For the file deletion, I would have tried

   $ rm \!*

first. Then if that didn't work,

 $ rm -i *

BTW, if you are seeing files like that on a disk and they aren't from
some foreign language, it is time to run fsck, bigtime.  I thought UTF8
was the standard character set for filesystems on Linux these days?

Or is this from a camera with FAT/FAT32.  Time to do a real format, not
just a "quick format"


On 10/06/2015 04:09 PM, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> I am trying to clean up an SD card.  "ls-ahl" gives me this:
> 
> -rw-r--r--. 1 kilpatms users 224K Sep 13 15:04 !?"?#?$?.%?&
> drwx------. 9 kilpatms users  16K Oct  6 15:38 .
> drwxr-x---+ 3 root     root    60 Oct  6 15:33 ..
> -rw-r--r--. 1 kilpatms users 832K Sep 13 15:04 ????????.???
> drwx------. 5 kilpatms users 192K Aug 27  2011 DCIM
> drwx------. 2 kilpatms users  32K Oct  6 15:35 FOUND.000
> drwx------. 2 kilpatms users  32K Sep 13 17:08 .fseventsd
> -rw-r--r--. 1 kilpatms users  32K Jul  4  2012 MISC
> drwx------. 2 kilpatms users  32K Oct  6 15:34 NCFL
> -rw-r--r--. 1 kilpatms users  512 Oct  6 15:33 NIKON001.DSC
> drwx------. 2 kilpatms users  32K Sep 13 15:15 System Volume Information
> drwx------. 4 kilpatms users  32K Oct  6 15:35 .Trash-1000
> drwx------. 2 kilpatms users 256K Nov  1  2014 .Trashes
> -rw-r--r--. 1 kilpatms users    0 Jan  1  1980 USBC??
> 
> 
> I would like to delete the file beginning with ! and the one beginning
> with  ?.
> 
> 
> But when I try "rm !*.*" I get this:
>    rm -ahl.*
>    rm: invalid option -- 'a'
>    Try 'rm --help' for more information.
> 
> which leads me to try rm ./!*, which doesn't work;
> neither does rm -- !*
> 
> 
> 
> And when I try "rm ?*.*"  I get this:
>    rm: cannot remove ?FOUND.000?: Is a directory
> 
> Clues would be appreciated.